Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.

She started her teaching career in 2014.

She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.

So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager

for a tech startup. Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions,

interview prep, addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more. Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.

Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. You can find us on all your social

channels at Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Welcome back to today's

episode. We get to know Jay Lockwood, who is a former educator who taught high school biology.

He now works in ed tech as an account executive. We discuss his transition out of teaching,

his new work-life balance, and how he stays connected to education. Hope you enjoy. Welcome back, everyone.

We're excited to have you for this next episode. And today we get to speak with and get to know Jay.

Welcome, Jay. Hi, how's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming. I'm excited to get to know you.

And we love to kick these off by hearing a little bit about your

education journey, kind of what you taught, how long you were in education, and what kind of drew you

to that profession? So it is a, I took the scenic route to teaching, actually. When I went to

school, I was pretty adamant about not wanting to be a teacher. My mom was an elementary school teacher and I grew up in classrooms and I was like, I don't want to be an elementary school teacher. I want to do. And then it kind of blanked out at that point. I just knew I didn't want to be a teacher. And so when I graduated from college, I got into property management and And it was a great skill to have, but

it wasn't very satisfying. And then randomly, all of my friends from college that I like,

you know, went to school with, had classes with, hung out with, worked with, they all become

teachers. I was like, what are you guys doing? And they all became high school teachers and

middle school teachers. And it was single subject at that point in time. And so I looked at what I was doing and like, what are you guys doing? And they all became high school teachers and middle school teachers.

And it was single subject at that point in time. And so I looked at what I was doing in like long-term

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